The ten nearest audiences to Maxine Waters span journalists, actors, academics, activists, and a non-profit — with no fellow politician in the set. Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition; a score near 1.0 indicates near-identical audience shape.
The shape is flat: scores run from 0.97 down to 0.95 with no single dominant neighbor pulling away from the rest. Journalists make up the largest single subcategory — April Ryan at 0.97, Keith Boykin at 0.96, and Joy Reid at 0.95 — followed by two actors, Wendell Pierce at 0.96 and Taye Diggs at 0.96. The remaining five positions are distributed across an academic (Melissa Harris-Perry, 0.97), an activist (Shaun King, 0.96), an artist (Ava DuVernay, 0.96), a TV personality (Don Lemon, 0.96), and a non-profit (NAACP, 0.97). Not one of the top 10 neighbors is classified as a Politician — the center entity's own subcategory is entirely absent from this tier.
That cross-kind pattern defines the audience: it aligns most tightly with media figures, cultural voices, and civic organizations rather than with other elected officials.